Download The Early Battles

By
Cole Bloemer
Wyley Spencer
Zack Sanderson
Nick Gage
 A few hours after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor,
they attacked American Airfields in the Philippines.
 Two days later the Japanese landed troops
 American and Philippine forces where greatly out
numbered, in the Philippine.
 *General Douglas MacArthur retreated his troops to
the Bataan Peninsula.
 They used the Peninsula’s rugged terrain and held out
for three months.
 By March the troops were eating cavalry horse, and
mules, do to there starvation.
 The lack of supplies and food, took there toll on the
soldiers.
 *The big diseases were Malaria, Scurvy, and Dysentery.
 *On April 9, 1942, the weary defenders of the Bataan
Peninsula finally surrendered.
 *Nearly 78,000 prisoners of war were taken, and forced
to march 65 miles to a Japanese camp.
 Almost 10,000 troops died on this gruesome march.
 The march was later called the Bataan Death March.
 A small force held out on the island of Corregidor in
Malia Bay after the troops of Bataan Peninsula
surrendered.
 Finally on May 1942 they also surrendered.
 President Roosevelt was searching for a way to raise
moral of the American people
 Roosevelt wanted to bomb Tokyo, but he could only
reach it if an aircraft carrier brought the planes close
enough
 Japanese ships in the North Pacific prevented carriers
from getting near Japan.
 *A military planner suggested replacing the carriers
usual short-range bombers with long range B-25
bombers that could attack farther away.
 B-25’s could take off from a carrier, but not land on
one.
 After attacking Japan, they would have to land in
China.
 President Roosevelt, lieutenant colonel James
Doolittle in command of the mission.
 A crane loaded 16 13-255 onto the aircraft carrier
 On April 18, American bombs fell on Japan for the first
time.
 Japanese leaders where against the raid! Those bombs
could have killed the emperor who was revered as a
god.
 The Doolittle raid convinced Japanese leaders to
change there strategies.
 The Japanese thought they could swiftly attack
without the Americans knowing because of there
equal strength.
 What they did not know is that the Americans to
already broke there secret code for conducting
operations.
 *A decoded message alerted the Americans to the
Japanese attack on New Guinea
 *So Admiral Nimitz sent two carriers, the York, and
the Lexington, to intercept the Japanese in the Coral
sea
 Although the Japanese sank the Lexington and
damaged the Yorktown
 The U.S. attacks prevented the Japanese from landing
on the New Guinea’s south coast and kept the supply
lines to Australia open.
 Since the U.S. was able to break the Japanese code, the
found out about there plans to attack Midway.
 The Japanese had so many ships at sea they decided to
just radio in the attack which aloud the Americans to
break it.
 Admiral Nitmitz had been waiting for a long time to
ambush the Japanese fleet.
 He then ordered carries to take positions midway.
 The Japanese launched a aircraft fleet and the
Americans were ready for it.
 The Japanese ran into a blizzard of anti aircraft fire.
 *38 Japanese planes where shot down.
 The Japanese sent a second fleet in which the Americans
sent a counter attack back at them.
 The Japanese then ordered a retreat.
 The Battle of Midway was a turning point of the war;
mainly because they lost the heart of there fleet.
 *President FDR wanted to invader Morocco and
Algeria for two reasons;
 The invasion would give the army some experience
without acquiring a lot of troops.
 More important, it would help the British troops fight
the Germans in Egypt
 General Erwin Rommel whose success earned him the
nickname “Desert Fox” commanded the “Afrika Korps”
 Although the British forced him to retreat after a
twelve day battle.
 German forces still remained a big threat to the British
and the U.S.
 *Later that month General Dwight D. Eisenhower
invaded North Africa
 American General George Patton’s forces also capture
the city of Casablanca
 When the U.S. Army advanced to the mountains of
western Tunisia; where they had to fight the Nazi’s for
the first time.
 *The Americans where outmanned and out fought,
they suffered roughly 7,000 causalities and lost 2,000
tanks.
 Eisenhower fired the general who led the attack and
put Patton in command.
 But finally on May 13, 1943 the last German troops in
North Africa surrendered.
 As the Americans and British fought the Germans, the
war in the Atlantic was intensified.
 After Germany declared war on the U.S. the German
Submarines entered American costal waters.
 American barge ships where an easy target for the
Germans.
 *So to protect the ships, the cities would dim there
lights at night.
 Some people would even drive without there head
lights on.
 By August 1942, German submarines had sunk 360
ships along the east coast.
 Many oil tankers where sunk, so to keep oil the
government built the first long distance pipe line.
 *From Texas all the way to Pennsylvania.
 Spring of 1942, Adolf Hitler was confident to win the
war for Germany, they where ready to take out the
soviets.
 May 1942, Hitler ordered his troops to capture the
Soviets oil fields, factories, and farmlands, so that he
could destroy there economy.
 When German troops entered Stalingrad, stalin
ordered to hold city at all costs, no retreat.
 The Germans where not equipped to fight in the bitter
cold like the Soviets.
 November 23, Soviet reinforcements came
surrounding 250,000 German troops.
 *February 1943 91,000 Germans surrendered, but only
9,000 survived the Soviet prison camps.
 Each side lost about half a million soldiers.
 The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point of the
war just like the Battle of Midway was.
 Now the Germans and the Japanese where on the
defensive side.
 Who was the General Who retreated his troops to the
Bataan Peninsula?
 A) General Admiral Aladeen
 B) General Douglas MacAurthur
 C) General Patton
 D) General Robert Lee
 What where the three big diseases that took there toll
on MacArthur's men?
 A) Diabetes, Small pox, Bird Flu
 B) Sore Throat, Cough, Itchy eyes
 C) Malaria, Scurvy, Dysentery
 D) Chicken Pox, Hands Feet and Mouth Disease,
Cancer
 What happened on April 9, 1942?
 A) the American army where sent home
 B) The weary defenders defeated the Japans
 C) the soldiers played a pickup game of soccer
 D) the defenders of the Bataan peninsula surrendered
 How many prisoners where forced to march 65 miles
to the japanese prison camp?
 A) 206
 B) 55,000
 C) 78,000
 D) 690
 What where suggested to take the usual short ranged
bombers place to China?
 A) Prisoners
 B) B-25
 C) B-26
 D) Planes
 Which two carriers where sent to intercept the
Japanese in the Coral sea?
 A) John & Sam
 B) York & Lexington
 C)Nike & Adidas
 D)Mississippi & Washington
 What alerted the Americans that the Japanese where
going to attack New Guinea?
 A) A decoded Japanese message
 B) A spy told them
 C) They saw them attacking
 D) a coded message
 How many Japanese planes where shot down in
Admirals ambush?
 A) 100
 B) 38
 C) 5
 D) 0
 President FDR wanted to invade which two countries?
 A) Morocco, Algeria
 B) America, Canada
 C) Japan, Germany
 D) South Africa, Ireland
 Which General invaded North Africa?
 A) General Doolittle
 B) General Dwight D. Eisenhower
 C) General Ulysses S. Grant
 D) General Napoleon Bonaparte
 What where the Causalities of the Americans when
they fought the Nazi’s for the first time?
 The cities would dim there lights at night to protect
them from what?
 A) Sharks
 B) German Subs
 C) Canadians
 D)Vampires
 Where'd the first pipeline start and end?
 A) Asia to Europe
 B) Texas to Pennsylvania
 C) New York to D.C.
 D) Hawaii to Alaska
 How many Germans survived the Soviet prison camps?
 A) 90,000
 B) 10,000
 C) 9,000
 D) 400